Academic Year 2016-2017 (Last updated 3/18/16)
MA: International Development
Advising Worksheet – 39-42 Hours
Name:
Course No.
AU ID:
Course Name
1st Term:
Credits
Term
Grade
Core Classes (12 to 15 Credit Hours)
International Development
SIS-637
Intro. To Economic Theory Note: May be waived. Will reduce program to 39 hours
ECON-603
Micropolitics of Development
SIS-636
↓ONE of the Following.
Survey of Economic Development
ECON-661
(Approved substitute: SIS-635 Intro to Economic Development)
↓Choose ONE of the Following. Students may take more than one of these courses; if so, one course counts here and other(s) in the Concentration
Population, Migration and Development
SIS-635
Children in International Development
SIS-624
Health in Developing Countries
SIS-635
Rural Development
SIS-635
Urban Development
SIS-635
Community Development
SIS-635
Social Accountability
SIS-635
Environment and Development
SIS-649
Global Economy and Sustainable Development
SIS-650
Other ID course (requires program director approval; see ID website for approved lists by semester):
Professional Research and Methods (6 Credit Hours)
SIS-600
Int’l Affairs Stats/Methods
A 2nd Approved Methods Course
Title:
Concentration (15 Credit Hours): ______________________________________________________
(Note: ID student are permitted to take a MAXIMUM of 6 one credit Skills Institutes, including any taken as elective.)
Elective (3 Credit Hours)
(May be used for skills institutes, internship for credit, as part of the Master’s Thesis requirement, or any other elective course.)
Capstone (3 Credit Hours)
SIS-795
Substantial Research Paper – SRP (Students must meet with an ID faculty member’s
SRP group which are only available in fall & spring, NOT summer)
SIS-793
SIS-797
Faculty:
Practicum
Faculty :
Thesis (3-6) (Recommended: 3 additional Thesis credits as Elective above)
Faculty:
Foreign Language Certification:
Professional Experience Requirement:
Semester Fulfilled:
Semester Fulfilled:
Language:
*Students are responsible for ensuring that all requirements are met.*
ID CONCENTRATIONS WITH SUGGESTED COURSES: In consultation with their faculty advisors, ID students may design other Concentrations,
select courses other than those listed below, and register for topics courses offered in SIS and other AU Departments. The courses listed below are suggested
samplings. Bolded courses are strongly recommended as foundational courses for those concentrations. The relevant ID professor likely has a longer list of possible
courses. Note: ID Concentrations are 15 credit hours including Skills Institutes. See also Skills Institutes, Consortium & approved methods courses, lower right.
Please be aware that some of the suggested courses have pre-requisites.
MGMT-609 Mgmt of Orgs & Human Capital
Entre’ship & Small Business (Fischer)
SIS-635 Urban Development
Children/Youth in Dev’ment (Dore)
SIS-632 Microfinance
PUAD-617 Project Management
SIS-635 Children & Youth in Int Development
ACCT-607 Financial Accounting
NGOs, Business & Dev (Tomasko)
SIS-619 Youth and Conflict
ACCT-609 Managerial Accounting – 1.5 cr hrs
SIS-603 Peacebuilding & Development Institute
SIS-648 Women and Development
MGMT-661 New Venture Business Plan
SIS-619 NGOs and Conflict Resolution
SIS-635 Introduction to Global Health
MGMT-663 Family Business – 1.5 cr hrs.
EDU-642 Training Program Design
EDU-649 Non-Formal Education and Dev
MGMT-664 Leadership
EDU-713 Advanced Training Program Design
Community Development (Auerbach)
IBUS-671 Peace Through Entrepreneurship
PUAD-681 Managing Nonprofit Orgs
SIS-635 Population, Migration & Dev
MGMT-668 Global Entrep & Micro Ventures
PUAD-683 Marketing for Nonprofit Orgs
SIS-635 Community Development
MKTG-612 Marketing Management
MGMT-626 Management Consulting
SIS-635 Rural Development
Social Entrepreneurship (Tomasko)
Food & Agriculture (Freeman)
SIS-635 Urban Development
SIS-635 Leading Social Innovation
SIS-620 Pol Econ of Food & Agriculture
SIS-648 Women & Development
SIS-635 SE Context/Practices
SIS-649 Environment & Development
SIS-649 Environment & Development
SIS-635 NGO/SE Management
SIS-635 Global Health & Rural Dev
SIS-635 Children and Youth in Int Dev
SIS-635 NGO-Private Sector Engagement
SIS-635 Rural Development
EDU-642 Training Program Design
PUAD-615 Public Private Partnerships
SIS-628 Global Health, Culture & Comm
EDU-649 Non-formal Education & Dev
MGMT-660 Entrepreneurship + Innovation
SIS-635/PUAD-614 Development Management
SIS-620 Urban Political Economy
MGMT-661 New Venture Business Planning
Conflict, Peacebuilding & Dev (Esser)
ECON-658 Economics of World Regions
MGMT-666 Strategic Alliances/Mergers &
SIS-516 Peacebuilding in Divided Societies
SIS-619 Human & Global Security
Acquisitions
SIS-517 Applied Conflict Resolution
SIS-620 Politics of Conservation
SIS-536 Complex Emergencies
SKILLS INSTITUTES
SIS-635 Food & Agriculture
SIS-540 Conflict & Development
HFIT-535 Global Nutrition
SIS offers 1 credit weekend courses focusing on
SIS-603 Peacebuilding & Dev Institute
Gender & Development (Samarasinghe)
topics of particular relevance for the
SIS-606 Culture, PCR: Alternatives to Violence
SIS-517 Gender and Conflict
professional field of international development.
SIS-609 Conflict Analysis & Resolution
SIS-635 Development Policies
Most Skills Institutes are appropriate for ID
SIS-610 Theories of Conflict & War
SIS-542 Human & Global Security
Concentrations. These one credit courses are
SIS-619 NGOs and Conflict Resolution
SIS-648 Women & Development
listed under SIS-638, SIS-633, SIS-639, SISSIS-619 Human Rights & Conflict
SIS-635 Children & Youth in Int Development
730 and SIS-603 (summer only). ID students
Development Mgmt (Hirschmann)
SIS-635 Globe’n, Human Trafficking & Dev
may include up to a maximum of 6 credits of
SIS-635 Community Development
SIS-642 Intercultural Relations
skills institutes in the Area of Concentration and
SIS-635 NGO Management: Best Practices
ANTH-543 Anthropology of Development
the elective.
MGMT-633 Leading People & Organizations
SIS-675 Race in IR
CONSORTIUM
PUAD-604 Public Program Evaluation
SIS-619 Migration & Security
Courses at other area universities may be taken
PUAD-614/SIS.635 Development Management
SOCY-635 Social Inequalities & Social Justice
by registering through the DC Consortium of
PUAD-617 Project Management (S)
Globalization & Development (Broad)
Universities as long as the same or similar
PUAD-633 Budgeting & Financial Mgmt
SIS-650 Global Econ & Sustain Devel
course is not offered in the same semester at
ACCT-611 Cost Accounting for Strategic Mgmt
SIS-649 Environment & Development
AU. See instructions to register for Consortium
Economic Development (Poole)
SIS-635 Social Mission Businesses
course:
SIS-650 Global Econ & Sustainable Dev
SIS-645 SE Context/Best Practices
www.american.edu/sis/gradadvising/consortium
SIS-651 Managing Economic Policy Reform
SIS-587 Globalization & Global Governance
.cfm
ECON-600 Microeconomics
SIS-589 Global Political Economy
Approved for ID 2nd Level Methods
ECON-601 Macroeconomics
SIS-635 Social Accountability
Other methods courses may be available but
ECON-634 Development Finance and Banking
ECON-634 Dev Finance & Banking
require approval of the ID Program Director.
ECON-658 Economies of World Regions
SIS-649 Environment & Development
The most up-to-date listing can be found on the
ECON-662 Development Microeconomics
IBUS-649 Global Supply Chain Mgmt
Grad Advising website:
ECON-663 Development Macroeconomics
SIS-648 Women & Development
http://www.american.edu/sis/gradadvising/seco
ECON-665 Project Evaluation in Dev Countries
SIS-635 NGO Private Sector Engagement
nd-methods.cfm. Please note: Skills Institutes
SIS-666 Int’l Financial Relations
SIS-644 Communication & Social & Econ Dev
may not be taken for the 2nd level methods
ECON-671 International Economics Trade
Governance
&
Development
(Fox)
requirement.
ECON-665 Int’l Trade Relations
SIS-650 Global Econ & Sustain Devel
SIS-619/SIS-750 Big Data and Text Mining
ECON-672 Int’l Economics Finance
SIS-619 Political Risk Analysis
SIS-619 Adv Quant Meth in Human Rights
ECON-673 Labor Economics
SIS-540 Conflict and Development
SIS-620 Policy Analysis for GEP
ECON-674 Gender Perspectives: Micro
SIS-635 Social Accountability
SIS-628 Community Participatory Methods
ECON-675 Gender Perspectives: Macro
SIS-545 Race in IR
SIS-634 Field Survey Research Methods
Education & Development (Hassan)
SIS-619 Corruption, Democracy, and Dev
SIS-635 Field Research Methods
SIS-635 Children and Youth in Int Dev
SIS-635 Security & Development
SIS-635 Mixed Meth for Community Research
EDU-631 Fundamentals of Mgmt in Ed Orgs
SIS-635 Development Policies
SIS-635 Program Planning in Global Health
EDU-642 Training Program Design
SIS-647 Governance, Demo and Dev
SIS-653 Policy Analysis
EDU-647 Global & Multicultureal Training
SIS-672 Theories of Comp & Int’l Studies
SIS-750 Qualitative Methods & Methodology
EDU-648 Education & Dev: Sector Analysis
SIS-676 Sel Topics in Cross-National Studies
SIS-750 International Policy Analysis
EDU-649 Nonformal Educ & Development
PUAD-608 Comp Administrative Systems
SIS-750 Proj Design, Monitoring & Evaluation
EDU-612 Equity & Educational Opportunity
Health
&
Development
(Yamanis)
SIS-750 Program Evaluation
SIS-628 Int’l Student Advising
SIS-635 Health in Developing Countries
SIS-750 Intl Affairs Statistics and Methods II
Environment & Development (Broad)
SIS-536 Complex Emergencies
ACCT-607 Financial Accounting
SIS-649 Environment & Development
SIS-635 Development Policies
ACCT-670 International Accounting
SIS-650 Global Econ & Sustainable Dev
SIS-648 Women & Development
ANTH-640 Graduate Research Methods
SIS-635 Community Development
SIS-635 Children & Youth in Int Development
ANTH-652 Anthropological Research Design
SIS-635 Social Accountability
SIS-628 Health Research
CSC-610 Intro to Geographic Info Systems
SIS-620 Political Ecology of Food & Ag
EDU-649 Non-formal Ed & Development
ECON-623 Applied Econometrics I
SIS-620 Politics of Conservation
HFIT-575 Global Health
ECON-624 Applied Econometrics II
SIS-620 Water Governance
Monitoring & Evaluation (Heath)
ECON-665 Project Evaluation in Dev Countries
SIS-620 Climate Change Policy
SIS-750 Program Evaluation
GOVT-615 Qualitative Research Methods
SIS-620 Building a Post-Carbon World
ECON-665 Project Evaluation in Dev Countries
PUAD-604 Public Program Evaluation
SIS-620 Policy Analysis for GEP
SIS-635 Social Accountability
PUAD-617 Project Management
PUAD.614/SIS.635 Development Management
SIS-635 Development Management
PUAD-696 Qualitative Methods
SIS-619 Big Data